In the first half of 2007, the Lodz airport had 150,500 passengers, or 66 percent more than in the same period of 2006. Operations grew 37 percent. The airport is developing fast. The second terminal is being enlarged.
„Till December, it will fulfill Schengen requirements”, Milosz Wika, Lodz airport spokesman said.
A draft of the third terminal is ready. The terminal is supposed to have 1.5m passengers. The airport is getting ready to launch cargo services as well.
Centralwings, the low-cost airline owned by LOT flag carrier, is negotiating two new routes from Lodz airport: to the UK and Ireland. Waldemar Krolikowski, Centralwings CEO, stressed that economic reasons will influence all decisions here. The routes make sense in view of the recent investment of Dell in Lodz.
In 2006, there were nearly 220,000 passengers who traveled via the airport. In 2005, the number amounted to 18,000 only.